A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
I’m a big guy and not much scares me. I’ve walked through “bad” neighbourhoods in Detroit when that town was more dangerous than Baghdad. To be honest though, I was afraid to see The Sods before entering Theatre Passe Muraille Backstage.
Continue reading The Sods (WSM Productions) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review
In death: THE MOVIE Greg Scala plays a film director intent on creating the most controversial movie ever made. The premise is this movie is: a man finds out he’s dying, he struggles with it, and then he dies. This is all explained in a very engaging opening monologue. The catch, we are told, is that the character will actually die. There will be no last minute medical miracle, no afterlife, no magical return from the grave, and that will be unlike any other movie in existence. Continue reading death: THE MOVIE (Human Warnings) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review
This is it folks, the final weekend of 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival! If you you’ve procrastinated and haven’t been out to a show yet this is your last chance! And, what better way to see a show than for free? In today’s edition we’ll be giving away tickets to the Saturday, July 16 performances of five shows.
The shows are:
Go F#$% Yourself – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 12:00pm show at Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (Venue 8 ) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Go F#$% Yourself contest” by 7pm on Friday, July 15, 2011.
Pat Burtscher’s Waffle House – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 4:30pm show at The Solo Room (Venue 5) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Pat Burtscher’s Waffle House contest” by 7pm on Friday, July 15, 2011.
death: THE MOVIE – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 5:15pm show at St. Vladimir’s Theatre (Venue 7) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “death: THE MOVIE contest” by 7pm on Friday, July 15, 2011.
Wishes Are Horses – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 5:15pm show at the Theatre Passe Muraille (Venue 10) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Wishes are Horses contest” by 7pm on Friday, July 15, 2011.
Cellar Hotel – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 11:00pm show at the Bathurst St. Theatre (Venue 3) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Cellar Hotel contest” by 7pm on Friday, July 15, 2011.
See below for details on each show, how the contest works:
There is some very good singing in this play. Unfortunately, I didn’t find much more about it to enjoy.
I assume the performers have been trained and/or are experienced in singing. I can’t tell though, as the program has no information on them. Bewilderingly, it does list the playwright’s accomplishments as an automotive mechanic and devotes a whole page to summarizing the plot of the play itself.
Continue reading Heart Strings: The Musical (MOLE productions) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review
James & JF are Emily James and Ishah Janssen-Faith, a self-described “comedy super duo” from Brooklyn, NY. Their training and credits seem impressive, and some of the audience seemed to enjoy them, so I guess I was missing something.
It’s not that I’m unfamiliar with clown or physical theatre. Perhaps it’s that I prefer my clowning on the darker side. The description of the show made it seem likely to appeal to my mordant taste: it’s the end of the world and James & JF are the last two women on earth, battling the prospect of imminent doom by entertaining themselves, and us, with a series of television programs they have devised. Continue reading Channel One (James & JF) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review